Hi, below the upstream answer.
> The LifeTime? value in '-l selftest' output is not truncated by smartctl. The > 'Life timestamp' field in the ATA Self-test log data structure is a 16 bit > quantity. Same applies to '-l xselftest'. See tables A.13 and A.21 of > T13/1699-D Revision 6a. > > If it is known (by drive database) that raw value of attribute 9 actually > reports Power_On_Hours, then it would be possible to detect the overflow and > adjust the log output accordingly. > > The number of ATA disks with an uptime of ~7.5 years or more might be very > limited, so I'm not sure whether this is worth the effort :-) > There is IMO no good solution to fix this. I have added a note to smartctl > man page. Cheers, Giuseppe.
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